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Here's another June 12, 2007
manifestation of my
perhaps ill-advised
fascination with
randomness...
RANDOM_CONNECTIONS
I take a copy of
Paul Goodman's
"Five Years" and GOODMAN
use it as something
like the I Ching:
I randomly select three
entries from it, and
try to find parallels
between them; I study
the set as a tryptych (Though rarely do
on it's own... I treat it as an As usual, I have
"Oracle", I don't multiple different
use it to make ways of making the
decisions, answer random selection.
personal questions,
and so on.) The book has 257 pages,
which means that
generating a binary
number with 8 coins
is a very close fit
for the range.
Finding parallels
isn't a surprise: The pages contain
these writings are varying numbers of
all the work of entries: I count
one intellect, down from the top,
however wide-ranging. using the first,
second or third
respectively in my
On occasion I think I three random
can spot parallels that selections.
Goodman might not have
been aware of... That's reasonably
elegant, and leaves
few blank spots
NOW_AND_LATER in coverage...
(I can do better
with software,
but that's too
dull to get into.)
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